{"id":487,"date":"2010-10-12T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-10-12T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:31:51","slug":"the-times-they-are-a-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Halperin\u2019s article in Time is a scathing rebuke of President Obama:\u00a0<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,2024718,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The following is his assessment of President Obama:<\/p>\n

With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democratic business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle.<\/p>\n

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What a shock.\u00a0 The most na\u00efve, inexperienced, unqualified person ever nominated to be President of the United States by a major political party turns out to be the most na\u00efve, inexperienced, unqualified President.\u00a0 My question for the politically engaged elites is:\u00a0 \u2018WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG<\/strong>?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not like there weren\u2019t enough clues.\u00a0 An objective review of Obama\u2019s educational and professional history shows that he is a man of no accomplishments who has never demonstrated leadership in any field.\u00a0 The lack of experience alone was enough to disqualify him, even if one ignores his radical associations and his highly questionable financial dealings with convicted felons.\u00a0 Electing Obama President of the United States was the ultimate affirmative action pick.\u00a0 Obama was elected because he is black.\u00a0 Democrats were too overjoyed at having a black candidate that could win to care whether or not he was actually qualified.\u00a0 Republicans were too afraid of being labeled racist to attack his pathetic record and questionable background.\u00a0 Jackie Robinson broke racial barriers because he proved that he belonged.\u00a0 He asked for no special favors and he earned respect.\u00a0 Obama is setting racial relations back decades because he is proving the opposite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the Republicans took over congress in 1994, Bill Clinton realized he was beat, so he just let them pass good legislation and he took the credit.\u00a0 But, Obama will not do that.\u00a0 Mark Halperin assumes that Obama blames everyone and everything else for his failures because he is a poor politician, but I believe he does this because he actually believes it.\u00a0 Just last week he told college students that they shouldn\u2019t stay home from voting just because \u201cBarack\u201d is not on the ballot.\u00a0 He believes the only mistake he made was in his failure to explain to people why he is right.\u00a0 I do not believe that Obama even recognizes reality.<\/p>\n

Republicans are going to run the table in November, but that will only be the first step in a long and difficult process.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect Obama to change at all.\u00a0 I think he will hunker down with the few people who actually still believe in him and he will try to continue on the same path as before.\u00a0 He will make recess appointments and will try to legislate by executive order.\u00a0 I fear we are on a course to major constitutional crisis.\u00a0 If any of the rumors about the personal corruption of Obama are true, the Republicans will have plenty of ammunition.\u00a0 Republicans will hesitate to do this, because of the negative impact from the failed impeachment of Bill Clinton, but ultimately Obama is unlikely to leave them a viable option.<\/p>\n

I can see November from my window, but December looks dark and stormy.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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